“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”-John Donne. To people death makes us mortal. It is this frightful feeling and agony that death delivers to people when it is thought about, or when it has taken someone from their side. Some consider that life will be eradicated after death. Yet, John Donne doesn’t anticipate that. In the poem Death, be not proud by John Donne, Donne degrades death to be more subordinate than what it portrays itself to be. Donne’s use of diction and shift in tone exhibits that death isn’t a force that dominates people’s lives but a bridge to eternal life. John Donne’s use of diction and tone contributes to the poem’s depiction of death that it is not a dominating
